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Sidney Offit Interview

By Lewis Frumkes / June 1, 2008

Sidney Offit has written Friends, Writers, and Other Country Men, which any thinking person should read. It is a memoir about Sidney’s friends and literary experiences over the last half century.

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Colin Harrison Interview

By Lewis Frumkes / June 1, 2008

Colin who is married to Katherine Harrison (The Kiss), and is an editor at Scribner, is a dazzlingly good novelist. One of his recent novels was serialized in the New York Times Sunday Magazine Section.

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Pico Iyer Interview

By Lewis Frumkes / June 1, 2008

Probably one of the most eloquent men I know, Pico writes with style to spare. His prose is not only invariably interesting and elegant, but languorous as well which happens to be his favorite word. On visiting North Korea once Pico found it curious that North Korea one of the […]

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Alan Furst Interview

By Lewis Frumkes / May 25, 2008

In this interview I talk to my good friend Alan Furst whom I have known since high school about the book The Spies of Warsaw, and about his life in writing generally. Alan has an encyclopedic knowledge of history and the forces that create the events he writes about.

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Emily Giffin Interview

By Lewis Frumkes / May 18, 2008

Emily is one of those delightful young women who are making a success of the chick lit genre. Her books are mega-best-sellers, and on the show we are talking about her latest effort Love The One You’re With and her life in letters.

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Nam Le Interview

By Lewis Frumkes / May 11, 2008

Born in Viet Nam and raised in Australia Nam Le  along with Sana Krasikov is one of the talented newcomers on the contemporary literary scene. Currently fiction editor of  the Harvard Review, he talks to me about The Boat , a stunning collection of short stories recently published by Knopf.

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Lijia Zhang Interview

By Lewis Frumkes / May 1, 2008

One of the new and important voices coming out of China.

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Grace Chang Interview

By Lewis Frumkes / April 27, 2008

Grace is one of the most extraordinary people I know. She came to me wanting to write a children’s book and we spent two years together as I watched her cobble Jin Jin the Dragon into a reality. It is a gorgeously illustrated book published by Enchanted Lion . . […]

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Josephine Hart Interview

By Lewis Frumkes / April 24, 2008

Married to Maurice Saatchi, Josephine Hart may just be one Britain’s great literary treasures. Brilliant and charming, every word sparkles. If you haven’t read Damage, or Oblivion you are doing yourself a disservice.

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Lewis Burke Frumkes Interview

By Lewis Frumkes / April 20, 2008

In this bizarre exchange Carol Higgins Clark interviews me on my program so that I can promote some programs I was involved with at the time. We are good friends so the interview is a lot of fun.

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